[ale] Dual Boot Windows 7 & Fedora 15

[Greg Clifton]

First, does the LED on the DVD light up, indicating that it is getting
"touched" during the boot process? If so, hitting the "anykey" to boot from
CD as soon as the LED lights up may cause the boot from CD function to work.
Computers boot so fast these days they can be nearly done with POST before
the screen lights up so you can see what is happening.

Alternatively, many notebooks now have a function key (F8 or F12) preboot
option that allows you to select your boot device if you hit that key before
the hard drive bootstrap loads.

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Brandon Antone <brandon.antone at gmail.com>wrote:

> I have a laptop with 500GB storage space.  I initiated a Windows 7 install
> first but it failed since the DVD I had of it was corrupted.  Onto
> installing Fedora.
>
> During the install of Fedora I created an Extended Partition for /boot and
> the LVM which would contain /home / and /var.  I initially set the
> bootloader on /boot on the Extended Partition, but of course it was not able
> to boot from the Extended.  I should have known that.  I later put it on one
> of the partitions I allocated for Windows, I believe the 100MB partition
> that is created for a Windows 7 Install and I was able to boot into my fresh
> install.
>
> The problem I'm having now is that I am unable to boot from CD it seems.  I
> tried with Windows 7 and a CentOS DVD I have.  Nothing.  I checked the BIOS
> and the DVD-ROM has priority to boot first but it isn't...it goes to grub
> almost immediate.  I can't perform an install if I can't do that.  Is there
> any way to resolve this?
>
> --
>
> Brandon Antone
>
>
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